我承认,这是不用费力就能在巴纳德学院的毕业典礼上赢得鼓掌喝彩的一句话。(笑声)说这样的话很容易。但事实确实如此。这是——在某种程度上,这是简单的数学题。今天,妇女不仅占这个国家总人口的一半,你们还是这个国家劳动力的一半。(掌声)越来越多的女性收入超过了她们的丈夫。你们在我们的大学毕业生中,在拥有硕士学位和博士学位的毕业生中占了一半以上。(掌声)所以,你们在人数上超过了我们。(笑声)
After decades of slow, steady, extraordinary progress, you are now poised to make this the century where women shape not only their own destiny but the destiny of this nation and of this world.
在几十年来的缓慢、持续、不凡的进展之后,你们即将在本世纪实现这样的目标:妇女不仅能改变自己的命运,还能改变这个国家乃至这个世界的命运。
But how far your leadership takes this country, how far it takes this world -- well, that will be up to you. You’ve got to want it. It will not be handed to you. And as someone who wants that future -- that better future -- for you, and for Malia and Sasha, as somebody who’s had the good fortune of being the husband and the father and the son of some strong, remarkable women, allow me to offer just a few pieces of advice. That's obligatory. (Laughter.) Bear with me.
然而,你们的主动性能使这个国家走多远、能使这个世界走多远,还要取决于你们自己。你们必须有这种愿望。进步不可能由别人拱手奉上。作为一个希望你们、玛莉娅和萨夏拥有这一前途及更美好前途的人,作为一个有幸成为几位坚强杰出的女性的丈夫、父亲和儿子的人,请允许我贡献几条建议。这是义不容辞的。(笑声) 容我慢慢道来。
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